♥ ‘melia told me she loved the beautiful ‘drangeas’ in the front. I said, O, ‘melia, it’s hydrangeas — further enunciating: HY-drangeas. She said, O — no mama, not the high ones — the low ones — the drangeas.

♥ This morning ‘melia told Hannah that it would be 73 grees today. I think she thinks the de in degrees is sort of an article of speech and not particular to the word degree.